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unnigh en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + nigh.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Not near.
   • Longman’s Magazine, immediately after his death, published the following poem, which took a very pathetic touch from the circumstances of its appearance—the more that, while it imaginatively and finely commemorated these days of truant wanderings, it showed the ruling passion for home and the old haunts, strongly and vividly, even not unnigh to death: […] 1905, Alexander H. Japp, Robert Louis Stevenson, second edition:

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